AMS :: 2011 Spring Western Section Meeting, Program by AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, May 7, 2011 00:22:48

Associate secretaries:

Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, I
Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Recent progress in a posteriori estimation of pointwise errors in FEM.
  Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky
  (1071-65-102)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A framework for robust eigenvalue error estimation and ritz value convergence enhancement.
  Jeffrey Ovall*, University of Kentucky
  Randolph Bank, University of California, San DIego
  Luka Grubisic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  (1071-65-105)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Central Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for ideal MHD Equations with the Exactly Divergence-Free Magnetic Field.
  Fengyan Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
  Liwei Xu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
  (1071-65-85)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Good numerical solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations.
  Gerard Awanou*, Northern Illinois University
  (1071-65-241)

Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, II
Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation.
  Jerry lloyd Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis
  Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee
  Yulong Xing*, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  (1071-65-78)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for higher order partial differential equations.
  Fatih Celiker*, Wayne State University
  Bernardo Cockburn, University of Minnesota
  Ke Shi, University of Minnesota
  (1071-65-37)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite element approximations of glacier flows with sliding.
  Sum Chow*, Brigham Young University
  Warren Crutcher, Brigham Young University
  (1071-65-178)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mesh adaptation for the finite element solution of heterogeneous anisotropic diffusion problems.
  Weizhang Huang*, University of Kansas
  (1071-65-83)

Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, III
Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
Organizers:
Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  An ADI extrapolated Crank-Nicolson orthogonal spline collocation method for nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems.
  Ryan Fernandes, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
  Graeme Fairweather*, American Mathematical Society
  (1071-65-65)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An Analysis of the Uniaxial PML Model For Maxwell's Equations in Dispersive Media.
  Vrushali A. Bokil*, Oregon State University
  (1071-65-26)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Interior penalty DG methods for Maxwell's equations in dispersive media.
  Jichun Li*, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4020, USA
  Yunqing Huang, Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, China
  Wei Yang, Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, China
  (1071-65-237)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Maximum Principle for Finite Element Methods.
  Junping Wang*, National Science Foundation
  (1071-65-227)